Winners this year include teachers from Fairmount Elementary School, Edwardsville High School, Parkway West Middle School, Highland Middle School and Bernard Long Elementary School.

The grants range from $2,500 to $10,000 each and will be used for enhancing learning areas with iPad minis, adding video spaces for students to write and produce videos and share news, purchasing lab supplies and funding field trips.

St. Louis-based Emerson (NYSE: EMR) reported net income of $2 billion on net sales of $24.4 billion in fiscal 2012. The company and its subsidiaries had an average of about 134,900 employees last year.